Bibliograph

Machers and rockers, Chess Records and the business of rock & roll, Rich Cohen

Type

Label

Machers and rockers, Chess Records and the business of rock & roll, Rich Cohen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Machers and rockers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55502857

Responsibility statement

Rich Cohen

Review

"On the South Side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants - one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black Blues singer from Mississippi - met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the Blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & Roll had arrived, and an industry was born." "Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business - aggressively acquiring artists, strong-arming distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation."--Jacket

Series statement

Enterprise

Sub title

Chess Records and the business of rock & roll

Table Of Contents

Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins

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